Writing about humility, Paul reaches for the highest thing he knows: Yahweh's irrevocable oath from Isaiah 45 — "I am God, and there is no other" — and applies it directly to Jesus. Every knee. Every tongue. The divine name. This article examines what Paul is doing, answers three unitarian objections, and establishes from Scripture and the early Fathers that the identification holds.
✚ On the textual transmission, the modalist reading, and the man writing in chains — a Catholic response concerning the post-apostolic witness. Article II · The Greg Stafford Response Series Ignatius of Antioch wrote in chains, on a forced march from his city to the beasts of the Colosseum, choosing — under conditions of ultimate … Continue reading Ignatius of Antioch: Apostolic Witness to Christ’s Deity→
Lord Jesus Christ Reigns A response concerning creation, time, and the doctrine of the Logos — addressed to the Jehovah's Witness reader. Article I of VI I. The Question, and What Is Conceded A response that gives the opponent nothing has not engaged the opponent. The case for the deity of Christ does not require … Continue reading On the Use and Abuse of Philo — Creation, Time, the Logos→
A Catholic patristics response engaging modern subordinationist readings of St. Ignatius of Antioch — the archives passage of Philadelphians 8:2, the Word-from-silence of Magnesians 8:2, the reverence of the bishop, the modalism charge against Ephesians 3:2, and the question of apostolic continuity. Argued from cumulative force, with the strongest opposing readings acknowledged.
John 12:41 makes two claims that together carry the Trinitarian argument: that Isaiah saw Jesus's glory, and that the glory John attributes to Jesus elsewhere in his Gospel is pre-temporal Shekinah possessed παρὰ σοί before creation. Even granting the unitarian referent of Isaiah 52–53, the Servant's glorification read through John 17:5 is restoration of co-possessed eternal glory, not the elevation of a creature.
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